Health care is a monopoly, the services the medical community provides, does so without competition. They are governed, educated and operate under a system controlled by their peers.
By controlling the quantity of doctors in the market, they control the prices they can charge.
The term ” HEALTH CARE REFORM ” is being translated by our government into protectionism for the medical and insurance community.
REFORM is not rationing medical services or mandating insurance policies purchases, they only drive costs up. True REFORM is getting the cost down on a 6 hour heart bypass surgery from $225,000. to $35,000.
REFORM is a 3 day hospital stay for $5,000 not $30,000.
The Government can REFORM healthcare and reduce the costs to everybody by 25% in 4 years and stabilize the costs for the future.
The cost to Government would only be $6 billion a year, not $Trillions.
$6 bil. a year, for 4 yrs, would pay for the education of 20,000 new medical doctors and an ongoing 5,000 doctors a year thereafter
8 years into this program ($48bil.) we would have 800 additional doctors available for each state.
An alternate to this program could be to build medical colleges ($1bil. each) in every state and operate them for 8 years.